I wouldn't necessarily agree with the suggestion that we need to refocus our public service, and that downsizing it significantly would translate into a public service in disarray or a public service that is not stable and consistent. All we have to look at, for example, are some of the things that government does that it shouldn't do. For example, here in this province, we still run government liquor stores. We still have a significant portion of our private sector doing retail work.
We have all kinds of departments for policy branches and that kind of exercise, which are redundant. They repeat the same process that other agencies within other branches are going through. On the regulatory side, for example, we have a model here called Service Nova Scotia, which saw a significant refocusing of our resources and the ability to do more with fewer people, which didn't translate into any instability or confusion in the private sector. In fact, it clarified things. It made it easier for folks to access government programs, and it made the rules better.